second goal for russian athletes at the winter olympics. finals but i.o.c. chiefs tell the full olympic squad they won't be allowed to march under the national flag at the closing ceremony in a couple of hours from now. the u.n. security council calls for a thirty day ceasefire in syria to allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to reach civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. plus among the big stories covered here this past week germany's leading tabloid published. undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize it was a hoax. my parents told me. now i cannot my father disprove. the

stories of people who suffered japan's post world war two sterilization program following the discovery of the shocking procedures they were subjected to. look at the past seven days biggest stories as reported right here and also today's developments as well and what a way to round off the olympics first off russia's athletes have won the second gold medal at the winter olympics in south korea a couple of hours ago the men's ice hockey team competing under a neutral banner because of doping violations beat germany a gripping final they had been neck and neck right up to the end sending the match into extra time in which the russians scored to clinch a four three victory it was the first time in twenty years the country's players had reached the final they last won gold in the ice hockey in one thousand nine hundred. two that was also under

a neutral banner but that was because the russians didn't have their own flag at the time following the breakup of the soviet union now at today's prize giving in pyongyang the olympic anthem was played but the hockey team defiantly sang the band russian anthem along with jubilant fans. supporters also waved the russian flag of the match despite that not being allowed either of the national symbols were also visible in the stands including a traditional head dress worn by women between the sixteenth one thousand nine hundred and the iconic golden cap type of crown worn by dissolves. so in total russia's athletes have won seventeen medals at the games including two golds the first gold was taken by figure skater alina is a get over in the women's competition her friend and teammate you have a guinea and that very diverse got the silver in the same event it was both of the teenage skaters first time at the olympics. and the closing ceremony starts in just under two hours from now but the russians won't be allowed

to parade under their national flag the international olympic committee have held its ban after two russian athletes tested positive for banned substances in pyongyang here trenchard who's been reporting throughout the games for us has more of the i.o.c. his decision. here in south korea as a result of the doping scandal the russian athletes had to abide by a long list of restrictions they couldn't be called team russia i remember things like them having to hide the letters russia on their backpacks with tape because even if a tiny russian flight pattern had made it into the picture they could have been disqualified but the hope was at least to take the russian flag with them to the opening ceremony it was up for the i.o.c. executive board to decide and they said no but we spoke to eve gaining with who won the oas our two silver medals in figure skating at these eleven pigs she was

present at the i.o.c. meeting as well and she was trying to convince the international officials on behalf of all the washington athletes that they deserve to have their flag with them at the closing ceremony if you wouldn't have painted them figure skating is an individual sport idea lympics is such a global event that you want to represent not only yourself i would have been happy to walk under our flag but in any case i'll be glad just to be at the closing ceremony. but on the other hand we did hear some good news for the russians the international olympic committee has promised to lift the suspension of russia's national olympic committee if no further issues surface and that would mean that the athletes and sports officials from the country will be given back all their rights as team russia and we won't hear the name o.e. our again. the united nations security council has passed

a new resolution calling for a cease fire across war torn syria it's in response to an intensification of the fighting in the rebel held on place of eastern ghouta on the outskirts of the capital the truce is effective immediately and at last for thirty days it's hoped that that will allow time. for injured civilians to be evacuated from conflict zones for much needed aid to reach of the stricken regions the number of terror groups such as islamic state and the latest incarnation of those who are excluded from this agreement that means operations against them will continue kalib open has more now on the un initiative there has been a resolution agreed on by the fifteen member body that leads the united nations regarding the situation in eastern guta this is an enclave to the east of the syrian capital of damascus and it's a place that's under the control of rebels and terrorists that are working to overthrow the syrian government twenty thirteen it has been surrounded by government forces and the fighting there has recently intensified and we're hearing allegations against both sides about human life being taken about civilians being

killed we're hearing accusations from the syrian observatory for human rights which is based in the united kingdom they're saying that that syria with the support of russia is hurting civilians and committing atrocities against civilians we've also heard reports from the russian center for reconciliation in syria they are pointing out that the area is essentially being used to shell civilians in damascus furthermore they're reporting that the terrorist groups in eastern guta are working actively to prevent medical aid from getting to civilians and they're using these civilians as human shield now after the unanimous vote we then heard from various countries we heard from nikki haley of the united states and she said she doesn't believe the syrian government will actually comply with the cease fire all of us on this council must do our part to press the assad regime as hard as we can to comply we are deeply skeptical that the regime will comply but we supported this

resolution because we must demand nothing less and nikki haley the representative of the united states walked out before the syrian representative could speak under u.n. rules if the resolution pertains to you all countries have the right to. addressed the security council we also heard from the representative of the russian federation now he addressed the security council and he emphasized that the fight against terrorism is not affected by this resolution that internationally delegated terrorist groups groups like al nasra isis that the fight against them is not restricted by this resolution that fight will continue he also had some concerns about how the fight against terrorism seem to be serving some other goals a. game of battling terrorism can't become a cover for solving geo political problems of dubious legitimacy and that is exactly what the u.s. is doing in syria right now we insist that the so-called coalition and its attempts and occupation as soon as possible it would have among other things

a clear humanitarian effect now the resolution has been passed so this thirty day cease fire that was agreed on by all fifteen members the council is going to be implemented investigative journalist rick sterling believes the russian amendments to the cease fire will allow anti terror operations to continue unimpeded. i think a kid didn't get the resolution was the inclusion. fact that the syrian government can continue the fight against al qaida and isis in east and i think that was the reason that it did pass unanimously with the support of russia and the encouragement of the syrian government is one good thing in the resolution is that it's was there quickly affirms the fact that the territorial integrity of syria needs to be preserved of course this is very relevant because right now the united states has illegally set up their bases and is occupying territory in eastern syria

we've got turkish soldiers even in northern syria so this is this is a very important to keep reaffirming the principle of territorial integrity it's unclear how the ceasefire will affect northern syria as afrin region which has become another flashpoint in the conflict turkey's been carrying out a military offensive against the kurdish militia fighters that he may claim to terrorists in its fight to dislodge the kurdish people's protection units from the border area the turkish military struck a convoy entering the city of afrin on thursday night and chris says it was carrying fighters and weapons but the kurdish forces insist that the trucks were carrying only civilians food and medicine they say one person was killed in the incident. such of those last. the let of much. earlier in the way pro syrian government forces arrived in africa to help try to repel the turkish offensive that came after the kurds

appealed for support and the fighting to put the united states in a difficult position as jacqueline bouvier explains. two of america's main partners in the region are now at each other's throats to put it mildly. and as the u.s. tries to avoid taking sides in the conflict they seem to be losing on all fronts turkey a longtime ally looks to be getting increasingly impatient with washington's inaction america has only dared to call for a reduction in civilian casualties in the fight prompting a vicious response from the turkish president. what disappoints us most in this process is the hypocrisy and even the levity of some countries which we consider allies and have deep political and military relations with turkey has had enough of

lice promises and delaying tactics and on the other side we have the kurds who have been essential to the u.s. led coalition's fight against eisel and the absence of support from their american partners against the onslaught of turkish forces the kurds have been forced to look elsewhere and that has pushed them into accepting help from pro-government forces this week militias loyal to the syrian government flooded afrin to bolster the kurds. which are out we have come to our brothers to fight together to protect our freedom. we are the popular force we came so that we could help our kurdish brothers because we are one people. now that surely ruffled feathers in washington where the syrian president comes only after i saw on their list of enemies the us has tried to shift focus to an issue that puts them back in the driver's seat battling eisel calling the situation in africa

a distraction what is going on in a free and is taking away from the fight against isis it is a distraction as secretary mabus had called it is search. not helpful to have people take their eye off the ball of isis we've talked about that numerous times before but in reality many in the region have already recognized that arsenal is all but defeated despite that the us led intervention which is in its third year has no end in sight but they may be left there with no one to call friend as they continue to alienate their allies you're watching on t.v. from moscow a major german newspaper has been caught out by hoaxes with a scoop about supposed russian meddling the details when the week after the break.

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welcome back to the weekly germany's best selling newspapers been tricked into publishing what i thought was a bombshell story russian meddling in the country's politics the report details how a mysterious russian agent and yuri had supposedly offered his services to the head of the social democratic party's youth wing. coalition deal with conservatives here's a snippet of the supposed exchange. dear kevin i'm yury i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group who campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me jay's favorite beverage as he can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh martin ginger oh dear ury perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with bazza gates schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even

a targeted facebook advertising campaign but the whole conversation was fabricated by the german satirical magazine titanic the editors behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online it shows one of the magazine's employees posing with a transcript of the fake emails and the tabloid subsequent article tongue in cheek the pranksters also turned on the head of the s.t.p. youth wing for dismissing the story as a clumsy fake they say they spent all of three hours concocting it the editor of titanic says the hoax was all too easy. we're to turn it over to rick a magazine we work with to say. methods as it builds so we knew how to think like and build editor there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this cannot be we have to make an alliance with the build tabloids and push a story about russian meddling a story that was tacky and like an aspiring movie and we had a good feeling that this would work when there's

a story like that for four built they don't care about the details it's only interesting if the story is good and it was a good story indeed it was. like a good movie and i hope it will be made into a movie sometime the build newspaper has since retracted the story what's more the head of the s.t.p. to youth wing insists that had he been made such an offer he would have turned it down. but i don't know but this group of course who would refuse any of these offers who don't work with social clubs i don't have information that will even received and yours was. and if you see mentioning meddling mention these days of course russia is usually linked to it somewhere but it seems the united states is way ahead on that score a former cia director submitted the washington interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it quote for a good cause but i guess they have been taking a closer look no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections

there who really pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i do that i don't mess around other people. are only for the very good to do that through online video and those former cia for a very good cause. said the former director of the cia it's funny because and when america does it when someone else's even suspected of doing it now not bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no not at all said

a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia wrote the book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of things since the cia was created in one thousand forty seven we've used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it we've planted false information for newspapers we've used with the british king george's calorie suitcases of cash add to that assassinations coups information warfare hacking and that's just the stuff we know about this the johnson that helped oversee the cia's exhibit g.'s he'd know the difference is they say when russia does it it's to destroy the woold even when that meddling has no actual impact on the elections as even the justice department just admitted when america doesn't so the greater good democracy and all that you could ask of course how on earth overthrowing democratically elected leaders as the cia has done is helping

democracy how sending billions of dollars worth of guns to gulf dictators is helping democracy but don't well the united states has been interfering in other countries elections since the one nine hundred thirty s. and in the caribbean and in latin america when i was in cia in the seventy's and eighty's in europe i would say that the that the cia and the us government basically were interfering in elections almost every election that was taking place in europe this was just routine that the us wanted a friendly government of a certain type and was willing to do certain things to enable that to happen if we're going to claim that america has the right to interfere behind the scenes in the politics of another country. it's a little hypocritical for then america to say oh no russian intelligence

has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways well with so much talk of meddling doing the rounds it seems than a few russian words cropping up in the english language nowadays. the previous administration kicked the russians out of their doctrine we have kept them out of there. he's an old k.g.b. colonel after. russia had engaged in attempts at developing compromise. that's still a leaky this sort of inner circle of their business interests have remained fairly

stable. you are the top of the pyramid of what's known as the resident tour which is where the f.s.b. the s.p.r. and the g.r.u. military intelligence guys are. an increasing number of victims of japan's decades long eugenics program have been speaking out about their experiences and follows the discovery of a trove of government documents relating to the practice of sterilization which began following world war two more than twenty five thousand people were targeted many of them were operated on without their consent one of the victims shared her story with. has a hard time getting through the middle school. one of the teachers to see cassey king and his house that i was constantly being used

by his wife i never got some difficult paints i never had the chance to see the official paper to back my diagnosis either she hated me. my teacher took me for a magical chacon and i was taken to hospital he didn't explain anything. when i woke up i was this deep and they told me not to drink water at school but i remember. at the time my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have a baby my father didn't agree to reach us to sign documents by my teacher and welfare for. the eugenics protection or was in effect until the mid ninety's it was introduced to preserve the purity of the japanese race and it permitted the sterilization of people with learning difficulties and hereditary diseases but

misdiagnosis was common and surgery was carried out even when according to the programme it should not have been the japanese government has still not apologized for the practice nor has it paid any compensation in fact for a long time the victims were told that there was no evidence of what had happened now in more than sixteen thousand cases the procedure was carried out without some people's consent some victims were as young as just nine years old with the issue now receiving increased attention questions are being raised as to who exactly should be held legally responsible. when i got married my mother in law told me that my sister has been sterilized after i made an information disclosure request i found out she was only fifteen when they peer ration to place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it is not true

when she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia doctors gave her so she didn't have a genetic condition the only show the question is who's responsible for all of this to me it's the government's fault they executed the program as well as the national legislature which adopted the law needs to take responsibility make apologies soon as possible the doctors were also responsible but in a way that we used by the government. and that's the way clee for this additional have more for you in just over half of the house here that. would normally manufacture consent to the public well. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent.

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